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ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Programmare e punire Semiotica del rapporto uomo-macchina nei luoghi di lavoro [PDF]
This paper shows how to describe the human-machine interaction through semiotic metalanguage. The machine is seen as an addresser, which modalizes the action of the subject through deontic and/or epistemic operators.
Francesco Galofaro
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Recognising Capabilities: The Importance of Recognition for Human Flourishing
This article aims to enrich critical sociolegal scholarship and methodological approaches within the field of capability theory by introducing ‘recognising capabilities analysis’. The recognising capabilities analysis embeds Nancy Fraser's theory of recognition (particularly her concept of parity of participation), into the capability paradigm.
Alex Louise Pearl
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Angelology in situ : recovering higher-order beings as emblems of transcendence, immanence and imagination [PDF]
The aim of this study is twofold: to identify the theological purpose underlying the depiction of angels at certain key points in the history of their use, and to explore how far that deeper theological rationale can be re-appropriated for our own day.
Potter, Dylan D.
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ABSTRACT The Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame (CAHF) has inducted 31 members during its first three years of operation, with the stated intent of establishing a critical mass of inductees “who have made significant contributions to the development of the Canadian accounting profession” and of creating “a curated biographical history of accounting in ...
Alan J. Richardson
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If anything, Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy, makes all living beings, including the human subjects, very much ‘part of nature’. Calling for an embodied philosophy of radical immanence marks the start of a bodily philosophy of relations.
Elisabeth Schäfer
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The Immanence and the Transcendence of the Emerging Subject in Marx’s Philosophy of History
The Author’s aim in this paper is to expose the hidden distortions in Marx’s understanding of the subject of history, such that occur under the influence of the patriarchal ideology. In order to do so, the author will first offer what she believes is the
Branislava Petrov
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Iron Ore Pricing in China: Financialization Through a Marxist Lens
We offer a Marxist interpretation of financialization as we examine the Chinese market for iron ore and the shift in the pricing mechanism from an annual fixed price to an indexed price from 2010. Drawing upon Marx's theory of the circuit of capital, we illustrate an empirical case of financialization that results from the conflict between social ...
Xun Gong, Eagle Zhang, Corinne Cortese
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In this article, the conceptual history of space in physics will be presented in the context of transcendent and immanent concepts. In short, transcendent concepts postulate space as an ambient super-structure to organize material objects, while in ...
Tanja Traxler
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An anatomy of worldmaking: Sukarno and anticolonialism from post‐Bandung Indonesia
Abstract This article analyzes the anticolonial worldmaking of postcolonial Indonesia's first president Sukarno, during Guided Democracy (1959–1965). Using worldmaking as a conceptual interface, the article offers three interconnected interventions.
Say Jye Quah
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